Can a OS be created and stored

[martin123]

Ok here is what i have

1 new acer aspire x3450 (7 days old)

win 7 home premium 64 bit 6GB ram 4TB hard drive 2x2 TB

Now its full of bloat-ware as new machines are also it had the acer back up junk installed

Here is what i have done i reformatted the main drive (nice and clean) then installed win 7 home (just to get the boot loader installed)

i created a 5GB partition and and made it bootable and placed my win 7 on it and rebooted and it auto installed win 7.

This now allows me to either boot in to win 7 or install win 7 with out a dvd or usb stick

So my question is

As i have a win 7 option to install can i create a iso image of my OS with all updates and sp1 and my default software i use.

And then install that iso image on my magic 5GB storage so if i format again at any time i dont have to sit and install all the updates ?

I can change the 5GB to a larger partition as 5GB just wont take it .

 

[jloc]

Sorry for not answering your question but how did you manage to create a bootable partition?!

 

[martin123]

Well i'l tell you the truth i used to be a member here once before but can't remember the name or details but it was posted on this forum a long time ago and i kept the instructions as follows

edited full info here http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/7943-install-windows-7-fast-without-dvd-usb-device.html

 

[bbearren]

I think your best bet is to create a drive image of your pristine system installation. Then if you want to revert to that original setup, just restore the drive image.

 

[seavixen32]

Sorry for not answering your question but how did you manage to create a bootable partition?!

I'm intrigued on that one too.

 

[martin123]

Sorry for not answering your question but how did you manage to create a bootable partition?!

I'm intrigued on that one too.

Thanx guys

link in 2nd post on how to

also admin can you delete the bladex name as i have now found my correct name

 

[Kaktussoft]

Ok here is what i have

1 new acer aspire x3450 (7 days old)

win 7 home premium 64 bit 6GB ram 4TB hard drive 2x2 TB

Now its full of bloat-ware as new machines are also it had the acer back up junk installed

Here is what i have done i reformatted the main drive (nice and clean) then installed win 7 home (just to get the boot loader installed)

i created a 5GB partition and and made it bootable and placed my win 7 on it and rebooted and it auto installed win 7.

This now allows me to either boot in to win 7 or install win 7 with out a dvd or usb stick

So my question is

As i have a win 7 option to install can i create a iso image of my OS with all updates and sp1 and my default software i use.

And then install that iso image on my magic 5GB storage so if i format again at any time i dont have to sit and install all the updates ?

I can change the 5GB to a larger partition as 5GB just wont take it .

So you have a 5GB partition with only the contents of a win7 install ISO or DVD? Let's say a bootable partition to install win7 home out of the box. Correct?

But you want that partition to be replaced by win7 install + extra software.

Just clone your working win7 partition with all software installed. Sort of a baseline. If your production partition fails you can clone from baseline.

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